I'm off!

[lazy_hoor]

On another wee holiday!  To the most glamorous of resorts - Birmingham!  Wooo!  Well, more Sutton Coldfield, which is the posh part of Birmingham.  They're so posh they claim they're not even in Birmingham!  So posh, Aston Villa players live there in mock-tudor mansions.  Um.

We're staying here, and on Monday (our first wedding anniversary - aaaahhhh) we're going here to go on 'Britain's Scariest Ride'!  I haven't been to a theme park since my early twenties, I hope I haven't turned into a complete wuss since then.  When I was very young my favourite Drayton Manor ride was the Jungle Cruise which was kind of like a trip up the Amazon (if the Amazon ran through Tamworth).  I would be very surprised if it's still there though - it was really quite racist!  There were animatronic black people with bones in their noses putting a vicar in a cooking pot.  Bizzare.  Oh apparently it's been replaced by a medieval ride (launched by Atomic Kitten, for some reason, wouldn't Robert Bartlett have been a better choice?).

Saturday is my cousin's wedding and the reception is in Drayton Manor too, but in a function room, not on the rides (sadly).  I hope the weather improves for it.

I've noticed that another messageboard that  leedy  unavand myself are members of (the one that spawned our knitting club) are having a seven-a-side football tournament.  Are any of yis signing up?!  We could knit our strips!

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Oh, racist theme parks of our youth! When I was 21, me and my best friend and my American girlfriend went to the American Adventure, which was hugely popular when I was a kid, and the H1 and I had raved to my girlfriend about how great and cheesy it was. We got there, and it was all these plastic caricatures of stereotyped Native Americans with signs like "Big chief say, little injun must take off shoe!" SO EMBARRASSED.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! I remember the American Adventure! It's hard to feel you're in the wild west on a dull day in the midlands.

And do you remember Little Plum ('Your Redskin Chum') in the Beano? *cringe*

[biascut.livejournal.com]

No - I never read Dandy or Beano, but we saw a terrifying TV programme about them other day which alerted me to what I'd been missing out on!

The American Adventure is a world of depressing these days. It's run by really pissed-off ex-miners, and you can get a season pass for £30 so there are all these fourteen year olds who haven't been to school since they were twelve hanging around sniffing glue.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I didn't see that programme but I can imagine!

I can't imagine the American Adventure being anything other than depressing. Brits trying to do American stuff - it's a recipe for disaster really.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

jeepers! i didn't remember little plum, but NOW i do. wow. /u\

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

I may remember that particular not-very-pc ride...

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I loved it when I was like 5 or something. I went on again when I was a teenager and thought it was possibly the lamest ride I'd ever been on. Everything was so ropey looking. And it had an aztec look and yet the "people" were African looking. Oh dear oh dear...

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

Oh dear indeed!! I don't remember how old I was when I went there, but something about your description sounds very familiar.